my

my

See also: Appendix:Variations of "my"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Myanmar, formerly Burma, where Burmese is spoken.

Symbol

my

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Burmese.

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English

Alternative forms

• ma, mah, me, muh

Pronunciation

• (stressed) enPR: mī IPA^(key): /maɪ/

  • Audio (US)

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• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /maɪ/, /mə/
  • (unstressed, UK) IPA^(key): /mɪ/, /mi/
• (Ireland, Scouse, some speakers) IPA^(key): /mi/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: muh, me (some dialects)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (possessive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).

Cognate with West Frisian myn (“my”), Afrikaans my (“my”), Dutch mijn (“my”), German mein (“my”), Swedish min (“my”). More at me.

Determiner

my

1. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
   1. Belonging to me.

      I can't find my book.

   2. Associated with me.

      My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.

      Don't you know my name?

      I recognised him because he had attended my school.

   3. Related to me.

      My parents won't let me go out tonight.

      • 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 165-166, page 10:

        From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,

   4. In the possession of me.

      I have to take my books back to the library soon.

Derived terms

• my arse
• my bad
• my eye
• my fellow Americans
• my foot
• my friend
• my giddy aunt
• my God
• my goodness
• my gosh
• my pleasure
• my sainted aunt
• my sainted uncle
• my son
• my way or the highway
• my word
• whoops, there go my trousers

 

Related terms

• mine

Translations

belonging to me

Afrikaans: my (af) Albanian: im (sq) Alutor: гымнин (ɣəmnin) American Sign Language: FlatB@Chest-PalmBack Arabic: ـِي‎ (ar) (-ī) (suffix, enclitic pronoun) Egyptian Arabic: ـي‎ (-i), ـيا‎ (ya) Armenian: իմ (hy) (im) Aromanian: njeu m, meu m, nja f, mea f Assamese: মোৰ (mür) Asturian: mio (ast), míu (ast) m, mía (ast) f Azerbaijani: mənim Bashkir: минең (mineŋ) Belarusian: мой (moj) Bengali: আমার (bn) (amar) Bikol Central: sako (bcl), sakuya (bcl) (before a noun); ko (bcl) (after a noun) Brahui: kanna Breton: ma (br) Bulgarian: мой (bg) (moj) Burmese: ကျွန်တော့် (kywantau.) (male speaker), ကျွန်မ (my) (kywanma.) (female speaker) Catalan: meu (ca) m Cebuano: aku Chakma: 𑄟𑄧 (ma) Chinese: Cantonese: 我嘅 (ngo5 ge3, o5 ge3), 我的 (ngo5 dik1, o5 dik1) (formal, written) Mandarin: 我的 (zh) (wǒ de) Coptic: ⲡⲁ m (pa), ⲧⲁ f (ta), ⲛⲁ m pl or f pl (na) Cornish: ow Czech: můj (cs) m Danish: min (da) c Dutch: mijn (nl) Dzongkha: ངའི (nga'i) Egyptian: (.j m), (.j f), (.j m or f) Esperanto: mia (eo) Estonian: minu, mu (et) Faroese: mín Finnish: minun ...ni, -ni (fi), minun (fi) French: mon (fr) m, ma (fr) f, mes (fr) pl Friulian: gno m Fula: am Galician: meu (gl) m, miña (gl) f, mi (gl) m or f (honorific) Georgian: ჩემი (čemi) German: mein (de) m Greek: μου (el) (mou) Ancient: ἐμός (emós), μου (mou) (genitive personal pronoun) Hawaiian: koʻu, kaʻu Hebrew: שֶׁלִּי‎ (shelí) Hindi: मेरा (hi) (merā) Hungarian: -m, -om, -am, -em, -öm Icelandic: minn (is) Ido: mea (io) Indonesian: saya (id) Interlingua: mi Irish: mo (ga) (before a consonant), m' (before a vowel) Istriot: meîo m, mio m Italian: mio (it) m Japanese: 私の (ja) (わたしの, watashi no), (male speaker) 僕の (ja) (ぼくの, boku no), 我が (ja) (わが, waga) (also written: 我 (ja)) Kabuverdianu: nha Kalmyk: мини (mini) Kazakh: менің (kk) (menıñ) Khmer: របស់​ខ្ញុំ (rɔbɑh kñom) Korean: 나의 (naui), 내 (ko) (nae), 저의 (ko) (jeoui), 제 (ko) (je) Kyrgyz: менин (ky) (menin) Lao: ຂອງຂ້ອຍ (khǭng khǭi) Latin: meus (la) m Latvian: mans Lithuanian: mano (lt) Louisiana Creole French: mô m, mâ f, mê pl Low German: min (nds) Lü: ᦃᦸᧂᦃᦾᧉ (ẋoangẋoay²) Macedonian: мој (moj) Malay: saya (ms) Malayalam: എന്റെ (ml) (enṟe) Maltese: tiegħi Manchu: ᠮᡳᠨᡳ (mini) Maore Comorian: -angu Maori: tāku sg, āku pl (dominant), tōku sg, ōku pl (subordinate) Mazanderani: مه‎ (me) Middle English: mi (before a consonant), min (before a vowel) Mirandese: miu m Mongolian: миний (mn) (minii) Nahuatl: noca, no (nah) Navajo: shi- Nepali: मेरो m (mero) North Frisian: Föhr: man m Norwegian: min (no) m Occitan: meu (oc) m Ojibwe: nii- Old Church Slavonic: мои (moi) Old English: mīn Oriya: ମୋର (or) (morô), ମୋ (or) (mo) Persian: ـم‎ (fa) (-am) (suffix), من‎ (fa) (... man) Pipil: nu- Pitjantjatjara: ngayuku Polish: mój (pl) m Portuguese: meu (pt) m, minha (pt) f, meus (pt) m pl, minhas (pt) f pl Quechua: (possessive suffix) -y Romani: mirro m, mirri f, mirre pl Romanian: meu (ro) m Russian: мой (ru) m (moj) Sanskrit: मम (sa) (mama) Sardinian: meu m, miu m Logudorese: meu m Scots: ma Scottish Gaelic: mo Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мој Roman: moj Shor: меең Sicilian: meu (scn) m, mìu m Sinhalese: මගේ (magē) Slovak: môj (sk) Slovene: mój (sl) Slovincian: mȯ́i̭ m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: mój Southern Altai: мениҥ (meniŋ) Spanish: mi (es), mis (es) m pl or f pl Swedish: min (sv) c, mitt (sv) n Tagalog: (after noun) ko (tl), (before noun) aking Tajik: ... ман (tg) (... man) Talysh: چمن‎ (cəmən), (for all persons) اشتن‎ (əštan) Tamil: என் (ta) (eṉ) Tarantino: mije Tatar: минем (minem) Telugu: నా (te) (nā), నా యొక్క (nā yokka) Thai: ของผม (kɔ̌ɔng pǒm) (male speaker), ของดิฉัน (kɔ̌ɔng dì-chǎn) (female speaker), ของฉัน (kɔ̌ɔng chǎn) (generic, informal) Tibetan: ངའི (nga'i) Tlingit: ax̱ Turkish: benim (tr) Turkmen: meniň Ukrainian: мій (uk) (mij) Urdu: میرا‎ (merā) Uzbek: mening (uz) Vietnamese: của tôi, tôi (vi) (usually post-position) Volapük: obik (vo) Welsh: fy West Frisian: myn (fy) White Hmong: please add this translation if you can Yagara: ariba Yiddish: מײַן‎ (mayn) Yup'ik: -qa/ka (sg), -gka (dual), -nka (pl.) Zhuang: duh gou Zulu: possessive concord + -mi

See also

English personal pronouns

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	–	y'all's you guys's your guys's (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys's your guys's (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic) hissen	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic) hits
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

Etymology 2

An abbreviation of an oath such as my word or my Lord

Interjection

my

1. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.

   My, what big teeth you have!

Derived terms

• my my

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məi/

Etymology 1

From Dutch mij.

Pronoun

my (subject ek)

1. me (object)

Alternative forms

• mij (obsolete)
• mijn (obsolete, rare)

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			u s’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			ons s’n
	2nd	julle / jul1			julle s’n
	3rd	hulle / hul1			hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Etymology 2

From Dutch mijn.

Determiner

my

1. my; of me

Alternative forms

• mij (obsolete)
• mijn (obsolete)

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			u s’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			ons s’n
	2nd	julle / jul1			julle s’n
	3rd	hulle / hul1			hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

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Cameroon Pidgin

Alternative forms

• ma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma/

Determiner

my

1. 1st person singular possessive determiner

See also

Cameroonian Pidgin possessive determiners

		singular	plural
1st person		my	we
2nd person		your	wuna
3rd person		yi	dia

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Chinese Pidgin English

Etymology

From English my.

Pronoun

my

1. I (subject pronoun)

   Synonyms: I, me

   • 1836 January, “Jargon spoken at Canton: how it originated and has grown into use; mode in which the Chinese learn English; examples of the language in common use between foreigners and Chinese”, in The Chinese Repository, volume IV, number 9, page 433:

     ‘My wanchee takee go away alla this cover, putee nother piece,’ replied I.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. me (object pronoun)

   Synonym: me

3. my (possessive pronoun)

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Cornish

Alternative forms

• (Standard Cornish) me

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī.

Pronoun

my

1. I, me

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ]

• audio

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Pronoun

my

1. we

Declension

Declension of my

	singular	plural
nominative	já	my
genitive	mě/mne	nás
dative	mně/mi	nám
accusative	mě/mne	nás
vocative	—
locative	mně	nás
instrumental	mnou	námi

Related terms

Czech personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		já	my
2nd person	familiar	ty	vy
	polite	vy
3rd person	m	on	oni
	f	ona	ony
	n	ono	ona
reflexive		sebe, se (clitic)

Further reading

• my in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• my in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• my in Internetová jazyková příručka

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Danish

Noun

my n (singular definite myet, plural indefinite myer)

1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

Declension

Declension of my

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	my	myet	myer	myerne
genitive	mys	myets	myers	myernes

Noun

my c

1. micron

Synonyms

• mikrometer
• mikron

References

• “my” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Egyptian

Etymology

mj (“like”) +‎ -j (“adverbializing suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /miː/
  • Conventional anglicization: my

Adverb

1. likewise
2. accordingly

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86.

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos.

Pronoun

my pl

1. we

Declension

Declension of the first-person pronouns

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ja	mej	my
Genitive	mě (after preposition) mnjo	naju	nas
Dative	mě (after preposition) mnjo	nama	nam
Accusative	mě (after preposition) mnjo	naju	nas
Instrumental	mnu	nama	nami
Locative	mnjo	nama	nas
Possessive determiner	mój	naju	naš

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂.

Conjunction

my

1. if

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Middle English

Determiner

my (subjective pronoun I)

1. Alternative form of mi

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɨ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Syllabification: my

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *me-.

Pronoun

my

1. we; first person plural

Declension

Declension of my

	plural
nominative	my
genitive	nas
dative	nam
accusative	nas
instrumental	nami
locative	nas
vocative	—

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῦ (mû), from Phoenician 𐤌‬‎ (m‬ /mēm/).

Alternative forms

• mi

Noun

my n (indeclinable)

1. mu (Greek letter Μ, μ)

Further reading

• my in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• my in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronoun

my

1. Obsolete form of mim.

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi]

Pronoun

my

1. we

Related terms

• ja
• ty
• on ona ono
• vy
• oni ony

Further reading

• my in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Swedish

Noun

my n

1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

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Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

Pronoun

my

1. we

Declension

Upper Sorbian personal pronouns

First person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ja			mój		my
Genitive	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Dative	mi (after preposition) mni			namaj		nam
Accusative	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Instrumental	mnu			namaj		nami
Locative	mni					nas
Second person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ty			wój		wy
Genitive	æe (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Dative	æi (after preposition) tebi			wamaj		wam
Accusative	æe (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Instrumental	tobu			wamaj		wami
Locative	tebi					was
Third person pronouns
	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Neuter singular	Dual virile	Dual nonvirile	Plural virile	Plural nonvirile
Nominative	wón	wona	wono	wonaj	wonej	woni	wone
Genitive	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeje (after preposition) njeje	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeju		jich (after preposition) nich
Dative	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jej (after preposition) njej	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jimaj (after preposition) nimaj		jim (after preposition) nim
Accusative	jón (after preposition) njón (animate) jeho (animate after preposition) njeho	ju (after preposition) nju	jo, je (after preposition) njo, nje	jeju (after preposition) njeju	jej (after preposition) njej	jich (after preposition) nich	je (after preposition) nje
Instrumental	nim	njej	nim	nimaj		nimi
Locative						nich

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronunciation

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

my

1. object of ik

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse mý, from Proto-Germanic *mugjǭ, *mują, from Proto-Indo-European *mu (“fly”), *mew-. Cognate with Norwegian mygg, Swedish mygga, Danish myg, Old English mycg, mycge (whence Middle English mygga, English midge); Old High German mucka (German Mücke (“mosquito”)); Latvian muša; Albanian mizë; Russian му́ха (múxa); Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa); Ukrainian му́ха (múxa); Bulgarian му́ха (múha); Lower Sorbian mucha, Polish mucha and Slovak mucha. Akin to Latin musca (“fly”). Compare the Dutch mug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mýː], [mǿʏ̯ː], [mʊ́ɪ̯ː]

  Rhymes: -ýː

  (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -ýːð

  (northern í-ý merger) Rhymes: -íː

Noun

my n

1. (collective) mosquitoes

Noun

my f

1. mosquito

Derived terms

• myskrank (“crane fly”)